He uses pressure.”

“I spent nine hundred and fifty dollars on that survey,” I said, looking at the blue lines on Carl’s map sitting near the toaster.

“That was my grocery money for two months.”

“Then let Rachel do her job,” Emma said.

“That is what we are paying her for.”

Rachel Monroe did not look up from her legal pad when we walked into her office.

She tapped her silver pen on her notepad, three quick clicks, before gesturing for us to sit.